Corporate vs. agency vs. startup
Three places I've designed, three different bets about where the truth lives. What corporate, agency, and startup life each taught me, and how to pick the one you'd happily lose sleep over.
Notes, essays & process
Writing (thinking out loud)
Half-formed thoughts on design, building Compute Labs, and the craft in between. One piece up now, more on the way.
The only designer, and a fleet of agents
Being a design team of one, and learning to delegate to AI without producing slop. How I stopped writing prompts and started writing job descriptions.
Design for conferences (or: the time I built a climbing wall)
A screen forgives you, an event does not. Why sameness is the default on a conference floor, and how we turned a booth into the product at Token2049.
Shipping a design system the whole team builds on
The secret of design systems is that the design is the easy part. On making the right thing the easy thing, and writing the system as a default instead of a reference.